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Hi Noel!

Played your game for a while:) First, let me say that I really enjoyed the graphic design, great job on those sprites! Now to answer your inquiries:

The game has really nice gameplay, loved the combat system - took me some retries to get used to it, but after that it was really fun. I didn't really get the people in white robes, why they are trying to push me away - it was quite annoying. The actual guards were great. Consider to improve some of the shots mechanism of the sniper dude - I tried to hide behind an object or behind another guard and the shot went right through - also when I get closer to the sniper and he ran away his sprite stuck for the movement (not a major issue, but something to fix later on).

Regarding the attacks, the 'q' super attack was pretty great, consider to lower the power bar a bit more after each attack as it becomes full too quickly. Also I'm not sure about this but maybe pressing q should actually initiate the attack and not just activate it?

As for the styles, I actually didn't get what is different between them (while starting the games try to move from one style to another and press the attack button - and it was always the same combinations, maybe something went wrong?) Anyway I had a lot of fun playing your game, thanks for sharing!

Hope this review was helpful:)

Shifful Studio

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Noel K.3 years ago(+1)

Hello Shifful Studio,

Thank for taking time to play the game, I'm glad you liked it.

As far the interns, that was an idea for what kind of attack they should do. I wanted them to tackle you, but I understand. While playing myself, I did not feel like their attacks were going to work out as intended. Also, the sniper was definitely supposed to run away. I didn't put it in this prototype, but I am going to give the player a projectile. I just wanted to see what it was like to fight them without a projectile. So far I've only gone off of my own experiences when designing and I didn't like having to chase the sniper down, but I didn't want to toss away the idea until getting some feedback because someone may find it interesting.

Completely agree with your suggestion about the points, that part will be tweaked later on to make it more of a challenge. As for the second question, I have thought of that and I'm not quite sure it will work out well. However, I'm playing this with a mouse and keyboard and that control scheme might work with a controller. So, I think I will add that functionality for the input for anyone who wants to play that way.

Yeah I didn't really specify it, but it just changes stats. You can think of the styles as giving you access to a set of passive skills and one active skill (kind of). A stands for attack. D stands for defense and S stands for Speed. Pretty simple, but I have found some interesting uses for it which still need to be properly balanced. In the future I will plan to add some indicators to let you when style abilities are in use. Also, did you have issues with the style animations playing correctly?

Thank you for the feedback, it's given me some things to think about.

Noel K.

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Shifful Studio3 years ago

Hi Noel,

To answer your question, as far as I can tell the style animations played pretty well. Maybe you should alternating between several style animations for each style - so the speed style animations for example will include short quick attacks.

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